echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

No under the NATO definition of peace. Don't be moving the goal posts now.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago

Copy editing won't be an executive's job. But yeah, they didn't do the bare minimum which is concerning, it seems to indicate that they may not do the bare minimum on all of their articles. How much stuff went undiscovered?

I'm not going to outright say that journalist shouldn't use AI to write articles, because it's basically an enforceable rule, but there should be someone at some point whose ultimate responsibility is to make sure that the articles are at least factual, whether they were written by a human or not. Determining whether a quote is legitimate is pretty easy, you just have to Google the quote, if you can't find any other sources you start to ask questions. As I said it's the bare minimum they could have done.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Behold I am the great immortal and moderately effective necromancer. Fear the power of dogs!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

So dogs will make me immortal?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Depends what your definition of defence is though, doesn't it. NATO could just be considered to be defence of peace in which case yeah you could have a mandate to intervene in certain situations and it would still be in defensive peace.

I think you're trying to make a distinction without a purpose.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm all for a specific and localised Armageddon that takes out just Israel and the US. Sadly I don't think of Iran actually has the firepower to do that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago

Walking with dinosaurs is like 20 years old it's not recent.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago

Yes that was the retcon explanation. The actual explanation is that they wanted to have Velociraptors in the movie and weren't really bothered about the fact that they aren't actually that big, there are species of raptor that are that large, but they didn't want to use their names because they were less well-known. Velociraptor was one of the few dinosaurs people knew. T-Rex didn't become famous until after Jurassic Park.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think it's funny how people go on about majestic horses. They're not majestic, they are uncoordinated panicky idiots.

My aunt has a horse and I've seen him run into a tree, there's one single tree in his paddock and it's a giant oak, and he's run into it at least three times. He panics if he can't see his friend, often because his friend is behind him, and then runs madly around until he crashes into something, or stumbles into the pond.

This is the horse and had a panic attack because the farmer had bought a new wheelbarrow and it looked different to the one he was used to.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Damn that's GTA levels of delay.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I sincerely doubt that a collision in low earth orbit is going to result in debris being flicked up into geostationary orbits, the energy differences involved are just monumental.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Little bit of a nitpick but Kessler syndrome doesn't care about how many satellites you have, and more about how many dead satellites you have hanging around on random orbits. You could put hundreds of millions of satellites in space as long as you had some sort of decommissioned program. You can always send up rockets if you can just move the satellites out of the way / know where they are.

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